''Thurya'' is a
monotypic genus
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of
flowering plant
Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. They include all forbs (flowering plants without a woody stem), grasses and grass-like plants, a vast majority of ...
belonging to the family
Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants. It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactace ...
.
It only contains one known species, Thurya capitata
Boiss. & Balansa
It is native to
Turkey
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.
The genus name of ''Thurya'' is in honour of Jean Marc Antoine Thury (1822–1905), a Swiss naturalist and professor of botany at the
University of Geneva
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. The Latin
specific epithet
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of ''capitata'' means having dense-headed growth and is derived from ''capitatus''.
Both the genus and the species were first described and published in P.E.Boissier, Diagn. Pl. Orient., series.2, Vol.5 on pages 63-64 in 1856.
References
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Caryophyllaceae
Caryophyllaceae genera
Plants described in 1856